Social Geography Discussions www.soc-geogr-discuss.net 1816-1499 1816-1502 3 1 2007 10.5194/sgd-3-121-2007 http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/3/121/2007/ http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/3/121/2007/sgd-3-121-2007.html http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/3/121/2007/sgd-3-121-2007.pdf 121 157 2007-02-16 International collaboration, mobility and team diversity in the life sciences: impact on research performance F. Barjak franz.barjak@fhnw.ch S. Robinson School of Business, University of Applied Sciences, Olten, Switzerland empirica, Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH, Bonn, Germany The combination of knowledge and skills from different backgrounds or research cultures is often considered good for science. This paper describes the extent to which academic research teams in the life sciences draw on knowledge from different research cultures and how this is related to their research performance. 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